| Orville Marcellus Powers - Business mathematics - 1906 - 384 pages
...groceries, $362; boots and shoes, $218; hardware, $160. What amount had he left in the bank? DIVISION 51. Division is finding how many times one number is contained in another. i 52. The Dividend is the number to be divided. 53. The Divisor is the number by which to divide. 54.... | |
| Orville Marcellus Powers - Business mathematics - 1906 - 384 pages
...groceries, $362; boots and shoes, $218; hardware, $160. What amount had he left in the bank? DIVISION .51. Division is finding how many times one number is contained in another. 52. The Dividend is the number to be divided. 53. The Divisor is the number by which to divide. 54.... | |
| Jacob William Albert Young, Lambert Lincoln Jackson - Arithmetic - 1909 - 310 pages
...in units' place. Test : 2 X 22 + 1 = 45. There are 22 boys on a side, and one boy is left out. 116. Division is finding how many times one number is contained in another. The number divided is called the dividend. The number by which we divide is called the divisor. The... | |
| James A. Lyons - Business mathematics - 1912 - 392 pages
...pound, and the cover stock was worth 7¿ a pound. What was the total amount of the bill? DIVISION 48. Division is finding how many times one number is contained in another. 49. The Dividend is the number to be divided. 50. The Divisor is the number by which to divide. 51.... | |
| William James Milne - Arithmetic - 1914 - 524 pages
...If the dividend and the divisor are like numbers, the quotient is an abstract number. This kind of division is finding how many times one number is contained in another. It is measuring. Complete and read : 4. $20-s-5= 5. 36^-s-4 = 6. 18rods-s-3 = If the dividend is concrete... | |
| Education - 1916 - 612 pages
...unknown number of times in 95. To find how many times .66 is contained in 95, we divide 95 by .66., for division is finding how many times one number is contained in another. Now consider this problem. Suppose one is told that 95 is 156 percent of some number and is asked to... | |
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